It is December 22 as I type this (yes, with ALL my fingers and my thumbs because I am old and learned to type in school....with a typing teacher...Mr...what the hell was his name?...anyway, he had a horrible case of cradle-cap and chunks of his bald pate would fall on your keyboard if he came over to tell you what you were doing wrong or to type faster. It was a great motivator...type fast and accurately and DON'T get scalp skin chunks all over the keyboard and your stuff) and Dec 21 was Solstice! Woot woot.
I had dinner out with friends to celebrate.
All holidays should involved binge eating. We had fantastic Thai food and candy. Then more candy. And more candy.
Here's a surprise, I don't feel good. Oh well. Maybe that whole tube of instant crescent rolls I made in a skillet on the wood stove will make me fill better especially topped off with the burnt percolator coffee.
Or not.
For me, today is the first day of the new year.
Here are the resolutions.
But first...my resolution theory. This is the current theory.
A FEW resolutions that I can probably keep. I used to do a litany of resolutions that mostly reflected how much I hated myself. That didn't seem to get me anywhere. My first attempt, years ago, at this was swapping "lose weight" out for "change weight"...you can't lose if you decide to "change" your weight. It's bound to change. I actually lost weight that year. Or so I choose to believe.
This year:
1) Breath work. I'm taking yoga classes on breath work and it helped the asthma and the night time teeth grinding so I intend to do some breath work each day.
2) Drink 2 cups of water first thing in the morning. Drinking all my water later in the day means I am up and down the ladder all night peeing. Perhaps shifting that to the morning will help.
3) No Amazon in 2020. I don't like their labor practices or the new enormodome of crap people don't need that opened by Spokane and will no doubt provide a few crap jobs for people who need a job. I doubt my dropping the 5 or 6 orders I was still making each year will change much. I think I ordered 3 things from there this holiday season and I could have gotten them elsewhere if I'd tried harder.
4) Donate weekly to the food bank or Kiva. I like Kiva a lot and have given kiva certificates as gifts to various folks. It is microlending so you usually get the money back and a bit of interest. I re-invest or donate to the organization to cover their administrative costs and keep it going. It's like simple investment training for me. I have had 1 loan go bad. The country fell into civil war and obviously basic survival should take precedence over paying back the loan on that cow that probably got blown up. I've already been donating pretty much weekly to the local tiny free pantries in Moscow. I buy 10$ of food and put it in there. Folks who might need it take it without any administrative oversight. You walk up, leave or take food as you like. I personally like to put together something that makes sense...ingredients for tuna casserole, or oatmeal-sunflowerseeds-raisins. A meal. There are lots of random cans of outdated olives that are "food" but not terribly nutritious. I think the whole canned chicken (5$) with noodles (2$), cream of celery soup (50cents), mixed veggies (50cents), canned pears (1$) and cobbler mix (1$) is my favorite. It's a meal I wouldn't mind eating. Chicken noodle casserole with veggies and pear cobbler. Anyway, I get my grocers and drop and extra 10$. I can usually shave my own grocery budget by 10$ so it's not an extra expense. Last weekend I took some dry white beans in a ziplock out of the free pantry as I dropped in my food. It had been there for WEEKS and clearly no one wanted those nasty beans. I'm going to plant them and see if they grow. Maybe they will give the gophers gas when they eat the shoots.
There it is. Minimal resolutions that are easy to keep.
Happy New Year.
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